If a document falls in Sharepoint, and nobody hears it.does it make a sound? They're a big Sharepoint shop, and mid-way through the meeting we had a revealing exchange: IT Executive: We're a heavy Sharepoint shop Us: Cool. Executive: No one goes to Sharepoint on their own. If you email them a link to a document, they'll click on it, but they won't go in by themselves. Us: Suppose someone adds a document to Sharepoint of potential interest to me.

Technology changes are also a common trigger for an intranet project, whether moving to SharePoint, or from one version to another (such as from 2007 to 2010). SharePoint can do a huge amount, and the temptation can be to launch every feature on day one.

I think that the word "SharePoint" is a dangerous word to use when talking about and building support among business stakeholders for a new collaboration toolset, intranet, extranet, portal, knowledge management system, or digital workplace. Now, SharePoint is a wonderful set of technologies, blessed with phenomenal adoption, a great partner ecosystem, and one of the absolute dominant players in the software world behind it.

Please visit the new blog at www.joiningdots.com/blog/ 28 August 2006 SharePoint History In 2007, Microsoft will release the third version of their SharePoint server product - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007). This post charts the progress from SharePoints initial beginnings through to the end-to-end information management platform that it is becoming, and the market changes that have also occurred along the way.

The second wave of sessions I attended at last week's SharePoint Conference comprised presentations by experts about best practices in and around SharePoint. One of her areas of expertise, and the topic of this session (SPC 248), is “Measuring the Value of SharePoint2010 Investments.”. There was so much usable content that it would be impossible to cover it all here, but here are some highlights: Measure THROUGHOUT a SharePoint initiative.

Case Studies and Examples View Comments January 27th, 2010 Updated May 14, 2010 I’ve been chatting with a few folks about E2.0 story This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 at 3:12 am and is filed under Enterprise 2.0. Rickard Hansson You're welcome! ;) mikecassettari We’ve been documenting our customers’ stories with our social knowledge management/E2.0 It will be called Sharepoint2010 or the intranet or a million other labels! MORE >>

"You can check documents out any time you like, but they can never leave." OK, it's technically a bit imprecise, but it was the metaphor that popped into my head when I learned a third new term/concept in January at my colleague Chris McNulty's SharePoint Saturday Hartford presentation about Enterprise Content Management: "Content is King.". See also: Technet overview of SharePoint2010 records management. MORE >>

Most notably, CentralDesktop has just released a tool that allows multiple users to simultaneously co-author Office documents in real time. Interestingly, this is the same functionality that users can obtain with SharePoint/Office 2010, but with CentralDesktop, it’s available for all versions of Office back to 2003. Back in May, I wrote a post to mark the release of Office 2010; in it, I talked with a number of cloud software vendors about where they see the market heading. MORE >>

This is the second of a six part series I wrote, Robust SharePoint Performance in the Emerging Distributed Enterprise: Turning the Potential for Chaos into the Means for Success, sponsored by Certeon. A myriad of benefits can be found in the connected enterprise that makes use of new tools (such as SharePoint). SharePoint is a tool that can meet this requirement. However, the increased use of WANs raises potential obstacles to SharePoint success. MORE >>